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Usonan  Fundamental  Law 

The  contents  of  this  book  are  very  new,  because  the  people  of  to-day 
do  not  follow  these  principles;  they  are  very  old  because  the  genius  of  old 
has  already  seen  it;  and  yet  they  are  new,  because  the  peculiar  combination 
adapted  to  existing  conditions  is  new. 

Fate  put  me  for  a  time  into  Usono;  fate  gave  me  a  brain  working  over- 
time thinking  how  and  why  is  this  and  that  should  be  fixed  in  such  a  way. 
Happily,  when  I  arrived  at  the  shores  of  this  land  I  had  already  seen  the 
world  and  I  was  in  the  middle  of  the  third  decade  of  my  life  when  my  heart 
was  already  petrified.  The  daily  shower  of  Usonan  thought  would  run  off 
me  like  water  runs  off  a  duck's  back.  I  was  a  liberal,  I  was  a  free-thinker, 
I  was  a  democrat,  saying  peoples  must  make  mistakes  to  learn.  Among  the 
natives  I  found  no  liberals,  few  free-thinkers;  but  I  agreed  with  many  of 
them  on  one  point,  that  Eoosevelt  should  not  be  king,  though  I  did  not  share 
their  fears  that  he  would  be. 

This  little  book  is  the  result  of  my  habit  to  measure  things '  at  my 
standard.  If  it  agrees  not  with  a  kind  reader's  ideals,  take  it  for  what  it 
is — a  knock  in  order  to  awaken. 

Liberalism  does  not  mean  that  there  shall  be  no  law;  it  means  that  there 
must  be  all  law,  without  which  peaceful  evolution  is  impossible.  But  it  runs 
sharply  counter  to  the  popular  superstition  that  a  majority,  or  even  plurality, 
of  the  voting  few  represents  the  people,  and  that  the  people  have  the  right 
to  do  anything  whatsoever.  Liberalism  demands  the  recognition  of  the 
rights  of  the  individual  by  the  people,  and  a  recognition  of  the  rights  of  the 
minority  by  the  majority,  and  an  abridgment  of  individual  liberty  by  over- 
whelming public  opinion  only. 

The  idea  of  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the  people, 
is  by  no  means  wrong,  but  as  usually  understood,  meaning  the  crushing  of 
most  of  the  people  by  a  few  fanatics,  it  is  simply  ridiculous. 

The  people  are  not  masters,  they  must  be  taught;  at  the  same  time  they 
must  be  allowed  to  make  mistakes,  'or  they  will  never  learn. 

There  is  one  thing  certain" as  to  what  government  of  the  people  means; 
that  is,  if  the  people  want  war  they  must  themselves  go  to  war,  and  there 
can  be  no  army  of  hirelings. 

Wisdom  has  fixed  it  so  that  I  can  not  coerce.  If  I  can  not  convince, 
I  must  fail  entirely,  however,  political  theories  count  for  nothing  wh,en  prac- 
tical problems  must  be  solved. 

Many  believe  that  a  uniform  and  consistent  philosophy  is  a  necessary 
requirement  for  consistent  laws,,  but  this  is  not  quite  true;  tolerance  is  all 
that  is  indispensable.  Let  there  be  materialists  that  say  it  is  our  daily 
experience  that  matter  thinks  in  man,  and  let  there  be  idealists  that  dis- 
agree with  them;  let  there  be  theists  and  atheists  and  every  kind  of  theorists, 
and  let  there  be  practical  people,  but  do  not  ask  the  other  fellow  to  conform 
to  your  type  of  morality,  and  then  there  would  be  nothing  in  the  way  of 
consistent  laws. 

The  first  practical  principle  of  government  is  local  self-govefnment  based 
on  individual  independence;  the  second  principle  is  interference  with  local 
self-government  by  an  overwhelming  public  opinion  only,  but  then  de- 
cisively. 

Therefore,  the  following  amendment  to  the  Constitution  should  be 
enacted: 

Usonan  Fundamental  Law  is  binding  on  the  States  and  municipalities. 
It  is  enacted  one  paragraph  at  a  time  by  a  two-thirds  majority  in  both 
branches  of  Congress.  If  vetoed  by  the  President  it  can  not  be  passed  over 
his  veto  during  his  term.  One  month  must  elapse  between  the  publication 
by  Congress  and  the  final  vote  on  any  paragraph. 


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It  is  the  purpose  of  this  law  to  establish  a  uniform  foundation  for  all 
legal  processes  and  the  administration  of  justice  thruout  Usono,  without 
unduly  interfering  with  the  right  and  necessity  of  local  self-governanent. 
Whenever  the  health  of  the  nation  requires  interference,  interference  there 
must  be. 

In  order  that  there  be  good  laws  they  must  be  adapted  to  local  con- 
ditions, and  not  be  altogether  uniform  thruout  the  Union.  Therefore,  local 
self-government  must  be  preserved,  and  even  strengthened;  but  this  must 
not  go  so  far  that  Usono  is  not  a  responsible  unit  when  dealing  with  foreign 
powers,  nor  so  far  that  the  States  and  municipalities  have  the  power  to 
violate  the  principles  of  justice  with  impunity.  .For  these  reasons,  some 
kind  of  Usonan  Fundamental  Law  should  be  adopted  and  made  binding 
thruout  the  land. 

The  main  thing  is  that  an  Usonan  Fundamental  Law  be  enacted — how  it 
will  read  is  a  secondary  consideration.  I  say  how  I  should  want  it;  others 
will  disagree  with  me;  but  in  course  of  time  the  country  will  come  around 
to  my  standpoint  more  and  more.  The  day  of  the  Puritan  is  gone,  the  day 
of  the  Liberal  is  at  hand. 

Even  libertinism  is  at  least  a  recognition  of  the  greatness  of  nature, 
and  therefore  better  than  puritanism,  which  treats  nature,  our  friend,  as 
an  enemy.  If  there  is  such  a  thing  as  sacrilege,  puritanism  is  the  utmost 
sacrilege. 

Great  iniquities  will  be  perpetrated  by  the  courts  even  after  the  adop- 
tion of  Usonan  Fundamental  Law,  but  not  as  much  as  now. 

There  is  nothing  mysterious  about  law.  Anybody  with  the  gift  of  gab 
can  make  a  good  lawyer,  have  many  clients,  and  make  plenty  of  money; 
often  the  more  shallow  he  is  the  better.  This  being  so,  it  is  not  to  be 
expected  that  law  will  be  reformed  by  lawyers;  rank  outsiders  will  have  to 
do  it.  I  advise  the  people  to  elect  more  men  of  breadth  and  fewer  lawyers 
as  their  representatives. 

A  way  must  be  found  to  govern  this  country  half-way  decently,  or  its 
growth  will  soon  stop  and  it  will  take  a  back  seat  among  the  family  of 
nations.  All  beautiful  theories  must  die  away  and  practical  things  must  be 
done. 

It  is  not  just  to  introduce  a  reform  for  which  the  people  are  not  ripe, 
but  this  little  book  will  not  be  law  entirely  right  away,  and  may  contain 
many  things  that  would  be  unjust  laws  if  enacted  without  further  education 
of  the  people.  It  is  just  that  tyranny  remain  until  the  people  be  ripe  for 
liberty. 

If  Congress  is  given  the  power  to  enact  Usonan  Fundamental  Law, 
some  of  it  will  likely  be  of  such  kind  as  I  disapprove  of  vehemently;  still, 
I  would  give  Congress  such  power.  Not  I,  but  public  opinion,  should  govern. 

The  Usonan  Fundamental  Law  cannot  cure  everything.  The  mischievous 
influence  of  the  oil  trust  over  Federal  officials  that  is  going  on  now,  not 
years  ago,  but  now,  this  very  day,  could  be  curbed  to  a  very  great  extent 
by  the  President,  but  it  can  not  be  curbed  by  adopting  a  law.  If  the  Presi- 
dent would  stop  bluffing  foreign  governments  and  clean  up  at  home,  he 
would  earn  eternal  fame. 

Usonan  Fundamental  Law  might  be  the  gushing  moutain  creek  that  is 
turned  into  the  Augean  stable  of  Usonan  politics. 

Usonan  Fundamental  Law  should  stand  squarely  in  the  way  of  every 
hot-head. 

The  time  will  come  when  Europe  will  do  a  similar  thing,  but  greater. 
There  is  to  come  an  Europaeisches  Grundgesetz  binding  Europe  into  one. 

In  the  future*  there  will  be  American  Fundamental  Law  binding  on  all 
the  States  of  America,  but  at  present  only  Usonan  Fundamental  Law  is 
practicable. 

For  many  decades  to  come  it  will  be  impossible  to  get  a  sufficient  number 
of  responsible  men  into  the  State  and  city  parliaments.  They  are  and  will  be 
composed  chiefly  of  boyish,  irresponsible  people.  Congress  stands  a  little 
higher,  and  it  is  therefore  wise  to  establish  a  strict  control  of  the  local 
governments  by  the  Usonan  Fundamental  Law. 


Suppose  I  was  dictator  of  Usono;  I  would  have  to  leave  most  things  as 
rotten  as  they  are,  for  culture  is  of  slow  growth  and  must  be  deeply  rooted 
in  the  people  if  it  is  to  be  at  all. 

Pension  the  invalids,  give  work  to  the  unemployed,  then  be  harsh  on 
beggars,  tax  the  rich,  favor  not  women,  but  men  that  support  families,  and 
the  country  will  make  rapid  economic  and  cultural  progress. 

Strict  centralization  can  and  must  be  combined  with  very  extensive  local 
self-government. 

A  wise  self-restraint  is  the  basis  of  that  co-operation  which  is  the  future, 
not  socialism,  communism. 

When  a  people  can  not  talk  without  using  superlatives,  it  is  a  sure  sign 
of  degeneration,  which  must,  if  continued,  lead  to  a  replacement  by  the 
yellow  race,  that  has  a  better  sense  of  proportion.  Sense  of  proportion  is  the 
first  requirement  for  every  household;  it  is  the  first  requirement  for  the 
national  household. 

While  their  mouths  are  overflowing  with  optimistic  platitudes,  their 
actions  are  extremely  pessimistic.  Things  must  look  very  dark  and  gloomy 
indeed  to  overcome  the  deep-rooted  mother  instinct  that  they  can't  have  an 
own  child. 

I  do  not  despair  of  this  country,  in  spite  of  the  great  lack  of  culture  I 
find.  It  can  be  done. 

I  make  so  many  propositions,  but  I  don't  want  them  adopted  in  haste. 
I  want  one  after  another  thoroughly  discussed  and  enacted  when  the  convic- 
tion is  gained  that  they  are  needful.  No  reform  is  well  until  the  people  are 
ripe  for  it;  besides,  we  have  been  living  under  these  laws  so  long,  we  can 
stand  it  a  little  longer. 

Those  people  who  think  corruption  in  Usonan  politics  could  or  should 
be  stopped  by  education  or  reform,  or  by  any  party,  or  by  direct  legislation, 
or  any  fad,  as  long  as  the  theory  holds  sway  that  a  slight  majority  has  all 
rights  and  the  minority  none,  are  downright  fools.  Corruption  is  a  necessary 
safeguard  against  the  existing  tyranny  of  ill-considered  law.  Corruption  is 
also  a  necessary  safeguard  of  the  honest  business  interests,  as  long  as  the 
law-makers  are  mostly  lawyers  and  quibblers  that  know  nothing  of  economic 
law  nor  of  business,  and  the  less  they  know  the  more  they  think  that  they 
can  and  should  regulate  everything  in  the  most  whimsical  and  hypocritical 
manner,  for  tyranny  breeds  hypocrisy,  and  hypocrisy  breeds  tyranny,  and 
the  only  way  out  is  corruption. 

Of  the  teachers  at  Usonan  colleges  24  per  cent  are  Germans;  71  per  cent 
have  studied  in  Germany;  but  this  is  not  enough.  German  culture  must  pene- 
trate the  common  people  thoroughly,  even  those  that  never  learn  or  hear 
one  word  of  German.  Thig  is  the  only  possible  way  of  eradicating  those 
excrescences  of  our  political  and  economic  life,  which  are  to  a  great  part  due 
to  the  arrogance  and  conceit  based  on  imported  insularity  grown  on  new  soil 
to  unprecedented  proportions. 

Anything  good  may  be  abused.  Republican  government  is  good  and 
is  very  thoroughly  abused  in  Usono.  The  right  of  Congress  to  enact  an  Uso- 
nan Fundamental  Law  may  be  abused;  demagogues  and  mentally  unbalanced 
world  betterers  may  write  injurious  provisions  into  it,  but  in  course  of  time 
they  will  be  eradicated  by  the  people  gradually  being  lifted  by  their  true 
leaders  until  the  time  of  freedom  shall  come. 

Any  State,  city  or  local  government  of  any  kind  that  violates  the 
Usonan  Fundamental  Law  is  liable  to  pay  damages  to  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment. 

This  must  be  strictly  enforced,  since  its  non-enforcement  would  impair 
the  validity  of  the  Usonan  Fundamental  Law. 

The  first  principle  of  justice  is:  "There  is  no  absolute  right  or  wrong, 
human  affairs  are  relative."  Any  law  that  conflicts  with  this  principle  is  en- 
forcible  only  as  far  as  it  does  not  conflict  with  it. 


I  Demand  that  :the  people  must  be  taught,  that  the  other  fellow  must  be 
:allo~wed  to  live  according  to  his  6$n  light;  Until  the  people  have  learned  to 
act  according  to  thai  principle,  they  are  utterly  incapable  of  any  decent  self- 
government. 

Law  is  foil  protection  of  society  only.  Any  law  that  enforces  any  par- 
ticular brand  of  morality  or  personal  behavior  is  void. 

This  law  makes  all  prohibition  laws  void,  also  such  laws  that  construe 
a  difference  between  sexual  intercourse  of  married  and  that  of  unmarried  peo- 
ple, though  rape,  seduction  of  minors  and  traffic  in  women  are  not  counten- 
.anced  by  it,  because  these  things  would  be  a  grave  interference  with  the 
rights  off  the  individual. 

The  institution. of  marriage  can  not  and  should  not  be  abolished,  but  that 
does  not  mean  "that  the  marriage  fanatics  should  be  allowed  to  run  amuck 
and  interfere  with  everybody  that  does  not  think  nor  act  quite  as  mono- 
gamically  as  they  pretend  to.  Monogamy  is  superior  only  where  it  exists 
without  coercion;  where  it  exists  by  coercion  it  is  prostitution. 

Marriage  is  not  holy;  the  natural  sexual  connection  based  on  love  is 
holy.  . 

Government  by  majority  does  not  mean  that  the  rights  of  the  minority 
must  be  trampled  under  foot.  Any  law  that  does  not  properly  respect  the 
rights  of  the  minority,  thereby  violates  the  Usonan  Fundamental  Law  and 
is  void. 

Regulation  of  the  liquor  traffic,  for  instance,  is  proper;  the  rights  of  the 
minority  are  then  respected;  but  any  prohibition  law  is  void,  also  the  anti- 
canteen  law.  Nobody  can  be  allowed  to  dictate  to  his  fellow  man. 

There  is  no  sense  in  thinking  that  51  per  cent  of  the  voters  represent 
public  opinion,  while  the  other  49  per  cent  count  for  nothing.  But  if  public 
opinion  is  sufficiently  decided  about  any  question  so  as  to  muster  a  two-thirds 
majority  of  the  voters,  interference  with  local  self-government  is  justified. 

The  people  can  commit  no  crime?  The  people  can  and  do  commit  many 
crimes,  and  they  get  it  in  the  neck,  too,  for  every  crimel  they  commit;  and 
then  they  .look  about  for  somebody  to  blame.  The  law-makers  pass  many 
laws  of  criminal  intent  that  do  great  mischief,  but  it  is  not  feasible  to  send 
them  to  prison  for  that.  Increasing  culture  of  the  nation  is  the  only  restric- 
tion that  can  be  applied. 

The  oath  taken  by  officials,  judges  and  jurors  must  state  specifically  that 
their  chief  guide  in  reaching  decisions  must  be  the  spirit  of  the  Usonan 
Fundamental  Law,  and  not  the  dead,  letter  of  any  one  law,  so  often  made  by 
irresponsible  legislators. 

Every  law  must  be  based  on  practical  equity  and  be  of  equable  applica- 
tion. 

,         A  law,  for  instance,  that  holds  the  father  to  account  for  his  children, 
while  it  does  not  hold  the  mother  to  account,  is  thereby  void. 

The  purpose  of  a  law  or  ordinance  must  be  clearly  stated  after  its  title. 

If  the  letter  of  a  law  seems  to  conflict  with  its  purpose,  it  can  be  en- 
forced according  to  its  purpose  only. 

The  spirit  of  a  law  is  always  to  take  precedent  over  the  letter,  and  the 
definitions  given  in  a  law  that  were  made  under  conditions  that!  are  past, 
must  be  considered  adapted  to  the  existing  conditions,  so  that  all  law  will, 
as  much  as  feasible,  adapt  itself  automatically  to  changing  conditions. 

Formality  is  to  be  replaced  by  what  Bozi  calls  "lebendes  Eecht" — living 
right,  living  law  or  living  justice. 

Any  law  or  decision  that  makes  justice  depend  on  any  legal  jargon  is 
void. 


The  legal  jargon  now  in  use  and  contributing  much  to  the  delay  of  the 
law,  and  the  popular  contempt  for  all  law,  must  be  eradicated  and  replaced 
by  a  simple,  straight-forward,  common  sense  language. 

Everybody  is  considered  innocent  until  proven  guilty. 

In  all  court  decisions,  the  criminal  intent  and  the  amount  of  danger  to 
society  must  be  considered,  little  mistakes  must  be  entirely  overlooked. 

Any  law  is  void  if  proper  provision  for  its  enforcement  is  not  or  can  not 
be  made. 

Any  law  that  has  not  been  enforced  for  a  year  in  several  cases  where  it 
clearly  applied,  is  thereby  void. 

No  law  can  ever  be  enforced  spasmodically;  old  blue  laws  are  void  with- 
out repeal. 

This  law  refers  to  all  criminal  law  and  such  regulations  that  are  enforced 
ex-officio  by  regular  governmental  organs,  not  to  the  civil  law  where  suit  must 
be  brought  by  private  parties.  It  is  designed  to  strike  not  hundreds,  not 
thousands,  but  hundreds  of  thousands  of  ridiculous  laws  from  the  statute 
books  at  once. 

A  difference  is  to  be  made  between  crimes  and  transgressions,  so  that 
people  convicted  of  transgressions  do  not  mingle  with  criminals  which  would 
tend  to  make  them  also  criminals. 

Nothing  can  be  called  a  felony,  nor  even  a  crime,  unless  it  is  a  serious 
interference  with  another  human  being. 

Prisoners  must  be  induced  to  work  without  undue  competition  with  free 
labor.  They  may  earn  money,  which  may  be  used  to  assist  their  families, 
but  the  chief  object  of  their  work  must  be  to  fit  them  for  the  struggle  of 
existence  in  their  coming  free  life. 

This  is  a  far  better  safeguard  for  society  against  any  possible  repetition 
of  their  crimes  than  any  fear  of  punishment  can  ever  be.  It  must  be  remem- 
bered that  legal  punishment  is  a  crime  that  society  commits.  Though  it  seems 
the  only  way,  it  remains  a  crime  as  much  as  any  individual  crime,  which  is 
also  the  outcome  of  necessity.  Self-defense  is  the  excuse  for  collective 
crimes,  but  self-defense  is  most  effective  if  convicts  are  led  to  lead  useful 
lives. 

It  takes  two  judges  to  pronounce  sentence  for  any  crime  (not  for  tran- 
gressions). 

It  takes  three  judges  to  inflict  any  punishment  exceeding  five  years' 
detention. 

Any  judge  that  shows  prejudice  against  any  class  of  society  must  be 
impeached. 

Laws  that  favor  animals  and  make  a  hardship  for  man  are  void.  All 
law  must  protect  first  children  and  mothers,  then  men  and  women,  then 
animals. 

Anybody  arrested  is  entitled  to  damages  according*  to  the  length  and 
consequences  of  detention.  This  also  applies  in  case  of  conviction,  when  the 
penalty  must  be  reduced  accordingly. 

If  the  States  do  not  reform  their  legal  procedure  on  their  own  account 
as  an  outflow  of  their  culture,  then  Congress  should,  after  having  waited  long 
enough  in  vain,  say  to  them,  it  costs  money  not  to  reform.  Touch  them  at 
their  weak  spot  and  they  will  speedily  give  in.  Three  quick  steps,  a  court 
decision,  an  appeal  to  a  higher  court  and  a  final  appeal,  and  no  other  legal 
wrangling. 


In  any  civil  or  criminal  suit  in  which  decision  is  not  rendered  within 
three  months,  decision  on  appeal  within  six  months,  decision  on  final  appeal 
within  nine  months  after  filing  of  the  suit,  the  State  pays  damages  to  the 
parties.  This  provision  goes  in  force  eighteen  months  after  publication,  so 
the  States  have  time  to  reform  their  systems  of  legal  procedure. 

Every  new  law  that  creates  a  new  possibility  of  offense  must  contain  a 
provision  that  for  twelve  months  after  it  is  in  force  the  penalty  can  be 
nothing  but  a  fine. 

A  law  that  remains  an  efficient  law,  if  such  features  that  violate  the 
Usonan  Fundamental  Law  are  removed,  is  not  entirely  voided  by  the  Usonan 
Fundamental  Law. 

In  any  trial  by  jury  no  unanimous  verdict  can  be  demanded.  A  reason- 
able time  must  be  allowed  for  deliberation  and  the  taking  of  a  number  of 
ballots,  but  no  undue  influence  of  one  juror  on  another  to  make  him  change 
his  mind  is  permissible.  Conviction  results  from  a  three-fourths  majority 
and  the  highest  penalty  can  only  be  inflicted  in  case  conviction  is  unanimous. 

The  instructions  of  a  judge  are  never  binding  on  a  juror.  The  judge 
can  give  explanations  only.  The  juror  must  decide  exclusively  according  to 
his  conscience. 

Where  the  death  penalty  exists  it  can  therefore  be  inflicted  only  if  every 
juror  brings  in  a  voluntary  verdict  of  guilty,  and  not  as  is  now  the  case 
when  some  of  them  surrender  their  reason  to  the  more  powerful  gift  of  gab 
of  the  others. 

This  reform  is  necessary  because  conviction,  which  for  some  crimes  can 
not  be  had  at  all  is  for  most  supposed  crimes  often  very  easy  in  Usono,  and 
many  errors  of  justice  occur,  due  partly  to  the  low  cultural  state  and  hypoc- 
risy of  the  law-makers  and  their  shameful  fear  of  skirts,  partly  to  the  ex- 
treme prejudices  and  conceit  of  the  people,  partly  to  the  arbitrary  power  of 
the  judges  and  the  unscrupulousness  of  the  police. 

Any  law  that  makes  it  the  duty  of  jurors  to  decide  as  to  the  sanity  or 
insanity  of  any  person  is  void.  "Guilty"  or  "Not  Guilty"  is  the  only  de- 
cision jurors  can  give;  also  they  may  grant  that  the  offense  was  committed 
under  extenuating  circumstances  but  a  neutral  commission  of  experts  must 
decide  as  to  the  legal  sanity  and  degree  of  legal  responsibility.  Expert  testi- 
mony on  eithe'r  side  as  to  these  things  is  not  admissible  in  any  procedure. 

Reading  newspapers*  unless  the  defendant  objects,  does  not  disqualify 
a  juror. 

Sanity  or  insanity  can  never  make  any  difference  in  the  necessity  for 
detention  of,  individuals  that  are  dangerous  to  society. 

The  official  oath  of  policemen  and  rolitical  officials  counts  for  as  much, 
and  no  more  nor  less,  than  the  oath  of  witnesses. 

The  right  to  convert  penalties  must  be  used  with  a  view  to  the  safety 
of  society.  Not  what  the  convict  has  been,  not  what  he  has  done,  not 
whether  the  crime  is  avenged  or  not,  but  only  whether  he  is  then  such  a  one 
that  may  be  safely  at  liberty,  is  to  be  considered. 

Nobody  can  be  found  guilty  of  contempt  of  court  and  be  sentenced  to 
more  than  a  fine  of  $10  by  the  court  where  the  offense  occurred;  and  con- 
tempt of  court  is  never  a  crime,  never  more  than  a  transgression. 

The  words  "acts  of  God"  in  all  legal  documents  are  to  be  replaced  by 
the  words,  "natural  events  beyond  human  control,"  to  do  away  with  such 
hypocrisy,  as  if  some  events  could  be  God's  acts,  others  not. 

Criminal  negligence  is  punishable  by  law. 


No  referendum,  recall,  initiative  or  other  popular  petition  can  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  voters,  unless  signed  by  forty  per  cent  of  the  voters. 

Any  State  law  that  interferes  with  the  self-government  of  cities  must 
be  passed  by  a  two-thirds  majority. 

The  condition  now  is  that  cities  adopt  a  charter  containing  many  thou- 
sands of  words  so  that  nobody  can  find  his  way  through  any  more,  and  if 
any  little  thing  is  forgotten  they  run  to  the  State  Legislature.  It  must 
be  just  the  other  way  around.  Instead  of  cities  having  self-government 
as  far  as  granted  only,  they  ought  to  have  complete  self-government  except 
as  far  as  specifically  prohibited. 

To  interfere  with  self-government  should  always  require  a  two-thirds 
majority  in  the  next  higher  governmental  division. 

I  wish  I  could  say  all  law  must  be  enacted  by  a  two-thirds  majority, 
but  it  would  prevent  the  adoption  of  necessary  laws. 

In  case  a  State  refuses  to  give  legal  satisfaction  to  a  party,  individual 
or  State,  native  or  foreign,  its  officials  and  legislators  will  be  held  personally 
responsible  in  the  Federal  courts. 

It  has  happened  repeatedly  that  States  have  refused  to  give  legal  satis- 
faction and  the  Federal  Government  has  tried  to  buy  it  off  with  money. 
Such  a  thing  must  never  happen  again.  Henceforth  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment must  hold  the  States  responsible. 

The  method  of  injunction  can  not  now  be  entirely  abolished,  but  for 
its  proper  use  it  must  be  thoroughly  changed. 

A  limited  power  to  issue  injunctions  is  vested  in  a  limited  number  of 
courts  appointed  by  the  States.  Every  appeal  from  an  injunction  must  be 
heard  as  soon  as  asked  by  the  State  Supreme  Court,  an  appeal  from  that 
court's  decision  must  be  heard  at  once  by  the  Federal  Supreme  Court 

It  is  only  by  injunction  that  local  governments  are  prevented  from 
committing  every  imaginable  crime  against  individuals  and  corporations. 
Public  opinion  pays  no  attention. 

Treaties  that  are  binding  on  the  States  and  to\  which  any  of  them 
seriously  object  can  be  ratified  only  by  a  two-thirds  majority  of  the  Senate. 

No  State  or  municipality  can  ever  refuse  to  obey  the  law  because  there 
are  no  funds  available.  The  officials  will  be  held  personally  responsible 
for  making  the  funds  available  by  emergency  measures  that  may  be  author- 
ized later. 

Any  law  that  fixes  responsibility  on  one  sex  and  exempts  the  other  is 
void. 

The  Usonan  Fundamental  Law  as  I  propose  it  will  give  to  women  equal 
rights  with  men,  but  it  will  take  away  those  special  privileges  that  tend 
to  make  a  parasite  of  her.  It  is  unworthy  for  woman  to  live  under  special 
privileges.  There  are  advantages,  but  she  naturally  will  desire,  and  evolu- 
tion will  lead,  to  equal  rights  and  equal  duties.  It  is  utterly  impossible  to 
prevent  this  development;  therefore,  the  thing  to  do  is  to  smoothly  guide  it 
along. 

I  do  not  participate  in  that  modern  sentimentalism,  feminism.  They 
say  women  should  not  be  hung.  I  say  if  men  are  hung  women  most  cer- 
tainly should  be  hung.  Woman  is  not  of  the  active,  but  of  the  passive  sex, 
it  therefore  requires  far  greater  depravity  of  character  for  a  woman  to 
commit  murder  than  for  a  man.  Equality  before  the  law  is  the  only  feasible 
way.  Natural  law  knows  no  chivalry,  no  politeness,  but  is  relentless  whether 
man  or  woman  be  concerned.  Such  necessity  and  equality  tend  to  develop 
the  greatest  and  best  qualities  in  man  and  woman,  as  it  has  developed  man 
from  the  beast. 


They  say;  a  slave-mother  can  not  bear  worthy  sons.  I  say  there  has 
been  many  a  slave-mother  of  great  sons  that  moved  the  world,  slave-mothers 
that  slaved  in  their  homes  for  their  families  and  didn't  know  they  were 
slaves,  but  the  modern  suffragette,  parasite,  figuring  day  and  night  on 
dresses,  when  she  is  not  scheming  to  get  more  special  privileges  for  parasitic 
women,  never  bears  great  sons. 

The  law  should  favor  the  mother,  not  the  woman.  The  more  special 
privileges  are  given  to  women,  the  harder  is  the  lot  of  the  mother,  and 
the  fewer  mothers  there  will  be.  There  is  the  contradiction  in  existence  in 
Usono  that  woman  is  better,  but  the  mother  is  worse  off  than  in  other 
civilized  countries. 

Man,  being  positive,  suffers  more  than  woman;  man,  suffering,  pro- 
gresses more;  man,  positive,  moves  the  world.  Woman,  passive,  suffers 
authority,  dogma  and  the  like  and  thereby  escapes  much  suffering.  Man 
must  do  it  if  it  is  to  be  done,  yet  woman  must  have  equal  rights. 

That  the  majority  of  women  don't  want  the  vote  is  never  any  reason 
why  those  that  want  it  should  not  have  it. 

Suppose  man  and  woman  did  not  differ  relatively  only,  but  that  there 
was  an  absolute  difference,  even  then  they  would  have  to  be  given  equal 
rights,  like  the  iron  and  the  stone  in  the  re-inforced  concrete,  each  doing 
its  share  of  the  work,  the  iron  taking  all  the  tension,  the  stone  all  the  com- 
pression, because  they  are  opposites,  like  man  and  woman,  are  opposites. 

Though  I  speak  for  woman  suffrage,  I  have  nothing  whatsoever  in 
common  with  militantism.  People  that  resort  to  unlawful  means  exclude 
themselves  from  the  right  to  make  laws.  Patience  in  the  name  of  justice  is 
the  weapon  that  overcomes  all  resistance. 

All  women  will  not  vote,  neither  do  all  men;  all  women  will  not  work 
in  professions  that  were  formerly  man's  field,  neither  do  men  refrain  from 
working  in  professions  that  were  supposed  to  be  woman's  field;  the  ma- 
jority of  women  will  tend  to  their  natural  profession  only,  but  some  will  be 
very  useful  in  other  fields,  and  for  their  sake  legal  equality  with  man  is 
necessary,  especially  since  it  does  not  tell  against  the  womanly  woman,  who 
is  entirely  free  to  live  the  womanly  life. 

Man  is  mentally  more  complex  than  woman,  even  so  woman  may  be 
a  very  useful  member  of  society,  though  I  am  sorry  to  say  very  many  are 
female  drones,  producing  neither  children  nor  anything  whatsoever,  except 
a  drain  on  the  pockets  of  their  male  relations;  if  a  few  of  them  could 
be  drawn  to  useful  occupations  by  being  given  equal  rights,  it  would  be 
well. 

It  is  wise  to  give  the  vote  to  woman.  It  will  serve  as  an  education. 
There  is  nobody  more  in  need  of  education  than  woman.  Life  does  not 
educate  her  half  as  much  as  man,  and  she  should  be  given  more  responsibility 
than  she  has,  since  the  burdens  she  had  to  carry  in  former  days  have  been 
lifted  more  and  more  from  her  shoulders  by  a  host  of  inventors  and  en- 
gineers. 

Any  law  by  which  divorcees  receive  a  pecuniary  benefit  in  excess  of 
their  pre-matrimonial  station  is  void.  A  fine  may  be  collected  from  the 
guilty,  which  goes  to  the  State,  but  not  to  the  divorcee. 

The  parasitic  tendency  of  the  Usonan  woman  must  be  checked,  because 
in  Usono  the  word  marriage  has  become  a  synonym  of  duress. 

A  man's  business  and  his  property  cannot  be  tied!  up  by  any  court  if 
his  wife  is  suing  for  divorce. 

Marriage  is  not  an  alms-house. 

They  may  leave  out  the  word  obey  from  the  marriage  ceremony,  but 
in  practical  life  the  wife  will  have  to  obey  the  husband  that  provides  for 
her  just  the  same;  nor  is  she  worse  off  than  he,  for  he,  too,  must  obey 
those  that  provide  for  him,  whatever  station  in  life  may  be  his.  The  pill  is 
often  sugar-coated  to  disguise  its  bitter  taste,  but  obey  it  is  nevertheless 
for  every  living  thing. 

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There  is  an  excessive  number  of  bachelors  in  the  country  and  it  is 
greatly  woman's  fault. 

Children  are  exactly  equal  before  the  law,  whether  they  spring  from 
legal  marriage  or  not,  equal  as  to  responsibility  of  parents  for  their  educa- 
tion, as  to  inheritance,  etc.  There  is  no  such  difference  as  legitimate  and 
illegitimate  children. 

It  is  impossible  to  force  all  men  to  be  exclusively  monogamic  through- 
out their  lives,  especially  when  they  are  young  and  not  ready  for  marriage; 
but  it  is  possible  to  make  all  woman's  actions  as  far  as  they  are  natural, 
also  legal,  and  to  extend  all  protection  of  the  law  to  every  mother  and  every 
child. 

The  theory  of  eugenics  has  been  evolved  by  people  that  over-estimate 
isolated  facts  and  have  no  conception  of  the  whole.  Man,  and  genius 
wherever  it  has  been  needed,  has  been  evolved  by  the  operation  of  natural 
law.  If  eugenics  should  take  the  place  of  natural  law,  hot-house  plants 
that  can  not  survive,  would  be  evolved  and  thereby  all  further  progress  cut 
off.  oSTot  more,  but  less,  interference  with  the  actions  of  the  individual  is 
necessary.  The  greatest  possible  freedom  gives  the  greatest  possible  evolu- 
tion of  character  and  of  genius. 

Nobody  can  ever  be  sued  for  alienation  of  affections. 

This  ridiculous  abuse  must  stop  entirely. 

Any  law  that  prescribes  any  dress  of  any  kind  to  civilians  is  void. 

There  must  be  no  interference  with  the  habits  of  peoples  and  individuals, 
and  any  disturbance  of  the  peace  can  be  prohibited  by  laws  made  to  that 
effect. 

Boys  and  girls  that  have  grown  to  puberty  can  not  be  considered  as 
minors  in  sexual  things. 

Much  abuse  is  caused  by  the  artificial  age  limit  of  twenty-one.  It  is 
a  nuisance  to  treat  young  men  and  women  of  twenty  as  if  they  were  ten 
years  old. 

,Any  town  that  closes  a  segregated  district  must  take  care  of  its;  in- 
mates to  the  end  of  their  days.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  sending  them  to 
another  town. 

Every  so-called  moral  wave  that  I  have  witnessed  in  different  parts 
of  the  country  has  always  been  a  terrible  outbreak  of  public  criminality. 

Marriage  must  be,  if  only  as  an  indispensable  means  of  protection  of 
motherhood,  but  if  marriage  must  be,  its  necessary  consequences  can  not  be 
suppressed  by  any  means  whatsoever;  therefore,  prostitution  will  be,  for 
in  need  is  makeshift  needful.  The  law  must  recognize  this  fact  and  must 
not  drive  more  and  more  young  girls  to  prostitution  by  taking  the  old  ones 
out  of  it,  and  it  must  not  make  the  life  of  prostitutes  harder  than  it 
naturally  is,  and  it  must  certainly  never  chase  them  from  one  town  to 
another.  The  crazy  moralists,  orthodox  phariseans,  think  they  can  con- 
vince everybody  of  the  necessity  of  suppressing  prostitution  and  running 
the  risk  of  rape  by  saying:  Do  you  want  your  mother  and  sister  to  do  it? 
The  same  old  arrogance  that  wants  to  impose  on  others.  Any  woman  that 
wants  sexual  intercourse  is  entitled  to  it,  and  neither  any  relative  nor  any 
politician  has  any  right  to  force  her  to  live  according  to  a  type  of  morality 
that  she  does  not  recognize.  Everybody  has  the  faults  of  his  virtues,  says 
Eochefoucauld.  If  you  want  marriage  you  must  have  prostitution;  both 
have  outlasted  and  will  outlast  all  attempts  at  reform. 

It  is  unlawful  to  send  hirelings  for  killing  natives  or  foreigners  for 
money.  If  the  people  want  war  they  must  go  to  war  themselves. 

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If  the  people  had  to  get  the  chestnuts  out  of  the  fire  themselves  they 
would  not  talk  about  making  war  on  Mexico  or  about  annexing  Canada. 
This  menace  to  the  peace  of  the  world,  this  army  of  hirelings,  must  go. 

Every  able-bodied  boy  receives  military  training  between  the  ages  of 
twelve  and  twenty  years,  first  as  boy-scout,  later,  according  to  conditions, 
such  training  that  will*  make  him  fit  to  defend  the  country  in  case  of  need 
on  the  battlefield. 

Every  able-bodied  girl  about  fifteen  to  seventeen  receives  such  train- 
ing as  will  make  her  fit  to  assist  the  army,  especially  the  wounded,  in  case 
of  need. 

The  Navy  is  manned  by  picked  men  that  volunteer  from  those  that  have 
already  'received  military  training.  To  serve  in  the  Navy  is  a  special 
privilege,  and  special  remuneration  is  received,  while  during  the  common 
training  on  land  nothing  but  pocket  money  is  given. 

Officers  are  professional  instructors. 

The  Army  can  be  used  for  the  defense  of  the  country  only,  and  can  not 
be  sent  across  the  sea,  only  volunteers  may  go  to  foreign  possessions. 

Until  the  army  of  hirelings  is  abolished  Usono  will  not  be  trusted  by 
the  other  American  countries,  north  or  south.  Is  it,  however,  feasible  to 
organize  a  popular  defensive  army?  Of  course,  it  is.  The  Usonan  boy 
takes'  well  to  early  military  training;  he  will  be  glad  of  the  opportunity, 
and  a  magnificent  system  of  defense  can  be  built  up,  ready  at  any 
moment  against  any  foe,  but  no  hirelings  again  to  be  sent  to  the  remote 
parts  of  the  world  for  conquest. 

The  majority  would  receive  very  little  training,  just  a  foundation  to 
build  on  in  case  of  need,  and  as  a  memento  to  restrain!  jingoism,  while  a 
few  picked  men  and  volunteers  would  receive  as  much  more  training  as 
the  Government  might  deem  necessary.  The  necessity  of  checking  Asiatic 
immigration  makes  it  necessary  to  be  constantly  on  the  alert,  because  Asiatic 
powers  are  rising  rapidly  and  will  demand  equal  rights  that  must  be  denied  as 
an  act  of  self-preservation. 

The  peace  of  the  world  is  safe  not  by  treaties,  not  by  the  Hague  tri- 
bunal, not  by  the  talk  of  the  pacifists,  but  by  the  abolishment  of  all  hired 
armies,  by  the  proper  preparation  of  the  nations  for  defense  and  by  the 
gradual  enlightenment  of  the  people. 

A  nation  that  has  an  army  of  hirelings  can  not  lay  any  great  claim  to 
being  a  civilized  nation. 

Government  by  majority  is  to  be  substituted  everywhere  for  govern- 
ment by  plurality.  If  no  candidate  has  a  majority  in  the  first  election  a 
second  election  is  to  be  held  in  which  only  those  two  candidates  enter  that 
have  received  the  largest  number  of  votes  in  the  first  election.  This  para- 
graph is,  however,  not  to  be  construed  as  prohibiting  the  introduction  of 
proportional  representation  in  any  parliamentary  body  where  that  is  de- 
sired. 

Not  State  nor  municipality  can  have  more  elections  than  one  in  one 
year.  The  first  election  held  in  a  year  is  the  only  one  that  is  legal.  If  a 
recall,  referendum  or  initiative  election  is  to  be  held  it  must  be  on  the  one 
election  day.  If  the  first  (primary)  election  gives  no  final  result  a  sup- 
plementary election  held  within  a  month  from  the  first  is  not  counted  as  a 
second  election. 

Voting  is  necessary  to  keep  the  people  satisfied,  but  as  a  rule  it  results 
in  bad  government  and  should  therefore  be  reduced  to  the  lowest  practical 
minimum.  Elections  should  occur  if  possible  only  once  in  five  years. 

If  due  to  the  restriction  of  the  number  of  elections  vacancies  occur,  the 
remaining  elected  officials  assemble  and  fill  them  by  majority  vote. 

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The  commission  system  of  municipal  government  is  an  old  thing  by  a 
new  name.  Cities  should  reform  their  governments  with  a  view  to  having 
few  elections  and  elect  few  men,  who  employ  experts  in  administration  for 
the  different  departments.  The  police  judges,  chiefs  of  police,  mayors,  en- 
gineers, must  be  experts  that  are  employed  and  not  good  vote-getters  that 
have  themselves  elected  but  are  incapable  in  administration. 

In  no  city  should  be  more  than  half  a  dozen  men  that  are  elected; 
the  rest  should  be  experts  that  are  employed. 

Nobody  is  eligible  to  any  political  appointment  except  experts  and  such 
as  have  served  from  the  bottom  up. 

The  veto  power  of  any  chief  magistrate  is  final  for  thei  length  of  his 
term,  the  same  as  the  veto  power  of  any  parliamentary  body  is  final  until 
a  new  one  is  elected. 

Any  campaign  committee  or  political  manager  is  prohibited  from  ac- 
cepting a  loan.  Nothing  but  cash  contributions,  without  any  string  to  them, 
may  be  accepted. 

No  bill  can  come  before  any  parliamentary  body  unless  it  comes  from 
the  administration  or  is  signed  by  25  per  cent  of  the  members.  No  amend- 
ment can  be  submitted  unless  signed  by  15  per  cent  of  the  members. 

Any  law  that  prevents  the  natural  development  of  business,  be  the 
tendency  toward  centralization  or  decentralization,  is  void. 

As  long  as  the  ordinary  criminal  law  remains  unenforced  against  trust 
officials,  as  long  as  perjury  of  Government  officials  that  make  common 
cause  with  their  cut-throat  methods  remains  unpunished,  there  is  not 
the  slightest  hope  that  any  special  legislation  can  do  any  good.  Our  bu- 
rocracy  must  be  reformed  and  the  trust  problem  is  solved. 

Taxes  must  apply  to  all  property  alike,  whether  it  be  private  or  col- 
lective or  church  property. 

All  taxes  on  property  valued  at  less  than  $20,000,  and  on  incomes  of  levss 
than  $2000,  must  be  reduced  to  one-half  if  the  tax-payer  has  one  child  under 
fourteen,  to  one-third  if  he  has  two  children,  to  one-quarter  if  there  are 
three  or  more  children  under  fourteen. 

The  issuance  of  stocks  and  bonds  below  par  is  prohibited. 

Every  issuance  of  stocks  or  bonds  is  done  with  a  sworn  prospectus  that 
must  be  inspected  by  a  State  commission,  not  as  to  advisability  of  forming 
a  company,  but  as  to  truth  of  statements  contained. 

,A!1  loans,  bonds  and  mortgages  must  contain  a  provision  for  their 
amortization  in  fifty  years1  or  less.  If  such  a  provision  is  not  insertedv  pay- 
ment of  interest  will  cease  after  fifty  years  and  the  capital  is  forfeited. 

Publicly  as  well  as  privately  owned  public  utilities  must  use  their  net 
income  in  excess  of  a  five  per  cent  dividend  on  the  actual  capital  invested, 
for  the  improvement  and  cheapening  of  the  service. 

All  farm  lanrt  held  by  speculators  and  not  worked  must  pay  ten  times 
as  high  taxes  as  farm  land  used  by  farmers. 

Any  unimproved  town  property  must  pay  ten  times  as  high  taxes  as 
improved  property. 

If  any  State  or  city  does  not  collect  those  extra  taxes  the  Federal  Gov- 
ernment will. 

Any  property  that  doea  not  pay  its  taxes  when  they  are  three  years 
overdue  falls  to  the  smallest  governmental  subdivision  within  which  it  is  situ- 
ated, and  for  ten  years  it  can  not  be  sold,  but  only  leased. 

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The  market  value,  less  unpaid  taxes,  is  paid  to  the  former  owner  from 
the  proceeds  of  leasing. 

All  usurers'  contracts  are  void,  however  harmless  they  look  on  their 
face. 

Until  such  a  time  when  the  country  is  ready  for  Government  ownership 
of  the  railroads  the  following  should  hold: 

Railroads  must  form  local  combinations  (in  restraint  of  trade)  to  pre- 
vent the  wasteful  duplication  of  lines,  and  thereby  make  such  a  saving  that 
they  can  build  new  lines  into  undeveloped  territory. 

Common  carriers  are  responsible  for  all  accidents  that  occur  on  them, 
and  are  held  to  pay  damages  by  the  States  where  accidents  occur  without 
any  civil  suits  being  brought. 

The  pressure  per  axle  on  railroads  is  limited  to  a  figure  fixed  periodically 
by  the  Federal  railroad  commission;  also  the  speed  and  the  strength  of  the 
roadbed;  all  three  different  for  transcontinental  and  for  local  roads. 

These  two  laws  will  reduce  the  accidents  on  railroads  greatly. 
All  grade  crossings  of  one  railroad  with  another  are  prohibited. 

Ten  years  later:  All  grade  crossings  of  railroads  with  streets  in  cities 
are  prohibited. 

Ten  years  later:  All  grade  crossings  of  railroads  with  any  public  roads 
are  prohibited. 

Government  ownership  of  the  railroads  will  come,  but  not  by  way  of  the 
Usonan  Fundamental  Law.  There  are  many  other  things  the  future  will 
bring,  but  not  thru  the  Usonan  Fundamental  Law. 

A  profile  thru  which  all  engines  and  cars  must  pass  is  fixed  by  the 
Federal  railroad  commission.  All  engines,  cars,  bridges  and  tunnels  must 
be  changed  to  suit  within  ten  years. 

Any  law  that  provides  an  improvement  which  necessitates  a  pecuniary 
outlay  by  private  people  or  corporations  must  go  into  effect  gradually,  else 
damages  must  be  paid  which  are  determined  by  special  juries. 

Any  tax  on  bonds,  etc.,  as  far  as  it  amounts  to  more  than  fifteen  per 
cent  of  the  interest  they  pay,  is  void. 

Anybody  owning  timber  land  must  re-forest  as  fast  as  he  cuts. 

All  income  exceeding  one  million  dollars  a  year  is  to  be  confiscated  by 
the  local  government  where  the  person  has  legal  residence. 

The  income  tax  should  be  revised  in  such  a  way  that  the  higher  incomes 
pay  higher  taxes  than  now. 

Nobody  can  inherit  or  receive  a  present  of  more  than  a  million  dol- 
lars. If  all  legal  heirs  are  thus  satisfied  and  something  is  left  over  from  an 
estate,  it  falls  to  the  smallest  governmental  subdivision  wherein  the  estate 
is  located. 

All  real  property  of  non-resident  ownerships  pays  a  sur-tax. 

There  is  great  talk  about  excluding  the  go-between  and  middleman; 
there  is  no  honest  endeavor  to  do  so.  The  European  peoples  are  helping  them- 
selves by  forming  co-operative  societies;  the  Usonans  do  not.  Who  can  help 
them  if  they  don't  even  try  to  help  themselves?  They  lack  the  social  virtues 
necessary  for  co-operation.  They  are  themselves  corrupt  and  therefore  think 
that  everybody  else  is,  and  invent  stories  of  corruption  without  basis  in  fact 
about  the  other  fellow.  Without  a'  glad  giving  of  deserved  trust,  co-opera- 
tion and  national  success  is  impossible.  As  long  as  the  country  is  a  colony; 

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it  goes  anyhow,  but  that  time  is  fast  slipping  away.    However,  the  following 
can  be  done: 

All  towns  of  more  than  25,000  inhabitants  must  establish  a  sufficient 
number  of  public  markets  where  the  producer  can  meet  the  consumer  to  the 
exclusion  of  the  middleman. 

Farm  and  industrial  products  held  for  more  than  three  days  by  middle- 
men pay  a  tax  of  one  per  cent  of  their  value  for  each  day  so  held;  but  if 
held  by  the  producers  or  the  immediate  consumers,  or  in  retail  stores,  they 
pay  no  tax.  Transportation  companies  may  hold  them  for  short  periods,  as 
the  traffic  demands;  otherwise  they  pay  the  tax. 

By  this  law  all  cold  storage  will  be  in  connection  with  transportation 
and  out  of  reach  of  speculators. 

A  people  that  does  not  think  and  act  socially  must  lose'  out  in  the  eco- 
nomic struggle  of  nations.  The  national  health  suffers  first  and  the  rest  will 
speedily  go  after. 

Every  State  must  prohibit  all  labor  of  children  under  fourteen  and  limit 
the  hours  of  labor  of  all  under  eighteen. 

They  may  go  further. 

All  States  must  give  special  benefits,  pensions  for  instance,  to  all  mothers 
of  children  under  fourteen. 

Any  law  or  regulation  that  interferes  with  the  legitimate  taking  care 
of  their  interests  by  workingmen  by  striking,  by  posting  peaceful  pickets, 
by  speaking  in  the  street  without  interfering  with  traffic,  is  void. 

Until  the  unemployed  are  given  work  by  the  States,  it  is  prohibited  to 
interfere  with  tramps  riding  on  freight  trains,  or  with  the  winter  quarters 
they  put  up  for  themselves. 

An  order  to  leave  town  is  always  unlawful  and  entitles  the  person  thus 
treated  to  damages. 

There  is  no  shoving  the  responsibility  on  other  shoulders,  and  increasing 
the  gravity  of  the  tramp  problem. 

Any  law,  charter  or  ordinance  that  prevents  a  city,  county  or  State  from 
properly  assisting  its  invalids  is  void. 

Wherever  the  hours  of  work  are  regulated  by  law,  the  office  hours  which 
seem  to  be  easier,  but  as  a  matter  of  fact  are  harder  on  the  system,  must 
be  shorter  than  the  shop  hours. 

Any  law  that  provides  minimum  wages,  hours,  etc.,  for  one  sex  only 
is  void. 

It  is  prohibited  to  receive  remuneration  for  giving  or  finding  employ- 
ment, except  from  the  employer,  who  can  not  hold  .anything  out  of  the  wages. 

A  very  great  abuse  exists  thruout  the  country,  a  conspiracy  of  employers 
and  employment  agencies.  This  must  be  entirely  abolished. 

Any  law  or  ordinance  that  makes  a  State  or  community  dependent  on 
labor  unions  or  other  private  organizations  is  void. 

Every  municipality  and  every  State  must  provide  a  commission  that 
legally  fixes  the  minimum  wages  that  may  be  paid  in  the  district,  and  the 
maximum  working  hours  for  different  kinds  of  work.  This  is  done  periodi- 
cally, at  least  once  in  five  years. 

No  minimum  wage  law,  except  for  minors,  can  anywhere  go  in  effect 
until  provision  is  made  to  assist  the  unemployed. 

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Transportation  in  cars  that  need  not  have  seats  and  may  be  hitched  to 
freight  trains  must  be  furnished  by  all  railroads  at  a  charge  of  one-half  cent 
per  mile. 

Every  State  must  pay  pensions  to  the  sick,  the  invalid  and  the'  aged 
by  a  system  of  insurance  to  which  both  the  employers  and  the  employed 
contribute. 

All  cities  and  States  must  provide  for  the  unemployed  by  letting  them 
plant  forests  on  the  bare  hills,  build  roads,  line  all  roads  with  trees  and  what- 
ever public  work  may  be  wanted  in  the  district.  The  amount  of  work  to  be 
done  must  be  changed  according  to  the  number  of  unemployed  that  apply. 
They  must  be  given  the  necessities  of  life,  but  no  money  until  they  leave  to 
look  for  employment  in  their  trades.  Nobody  can  stay  longer  than  two 
months  at  a  time,  except  instructors,  and  he  receives  three-fourths  of  the 
minimum  wage  that  is  paid  in  the  district  and  is  discharged  and  can  not  be 
taken  back  for  a  month. 

If  any  State  does  not  make  sufficient  provision  in  such  a  way,  it  must 
pay  such  high  fines  to  the  Federal  Government  that  it  will  speedily  come 
around,  just  to  save  money. 

There  are  always  employers  that  have  difficulty  in  finding  men;  they 
will  then  know  where  to  get  them. 

England  will  find  out  in  a  few  years  that  her  system  of  insurance 
against  unemployment  has  more  drawbacks  than  advantages.  Private  in- 
surance is  correct;  the  State,  however,  must  not  give  money,  but  work,  to 
the  unemployed.  The  self-reliance  of  the  men  must  not  be  undermined. 

The  English  system  gives  no  help  to  those  that  need  it  worst.  If  some 
learn  that  other  work  than  what  they  are  used  to  is  also  honorable,  it 
is  well. 

Many  of  the  reforms  that  I  demand  can  be  carried  out  without  enact- 
ing any  Usonan  Fundamental  Law.  For  instance,  Congress  might  pass  a 
law  that  all  interstate  railroads  must  carry  the  unemployed  in  freight 
trains  at  one-half  cent  a  mile,  and  another  law  to  give  work  to  the  un- 
employed in  the  reforestation  and  road  work  and  to  pay  them  when  they 
leave  three-fourths  of  the  minimum  wage  that  Congress  might  adopt  for 
interstate  and  Federal  work,  and  the  forty-eight  States  might  take  the 
hint  and  pass  similar  laws  suited  to  local  conditions,  and  the  problem  of 
unemployment,  and  vagrancy,  would  be  solved,  because,  wherever  there  is 
a  firm  and  honest  will  there  is  a  way,  since  intelligence  is  glad  to  come 
to  the  assistance  of  such  a  will,  but  the  will,  to  properly  assist  the  eco- 
nomically weak,  is  not  in  existence  in  the  country  yet. 

With  all  that  it  would?  still  be  necessary  to  enact  an  Usonan  Funda- 
mental Law  in  order  to  restrain  those  many  silly  pranks  of  irresponsible 
State  legislators,  which  must  be  made  to  conform  to  the  public  opinion  of 
the  whole  country. 

Any  law  or  court  decision  that  makes  citizenship  or  other  benefits 
granted  by  courts  dependent  on  a  superficial  memorized  knowledge  is  void. 

Any  law  that  excludes  reasonably  healthy  Europeans,  Americans, 
Australians,  that  can  take  care  of  themselves  from  Usono,  is  void. 

Many  natives  think  that  because  their  forbears  came  to  the  shores 
of  this  land  as  paupers,  illiterate  adventurers  and  refugees,  that  therefore 
they  are  better  than  the  poor  immigrant  of  today. 

Those  nativists  in  Congress  don't  know  how  much  money  the  Usonan 
people  are  making  out  of  the  immigrants.  The  unions  don't  realize  that 
only  because  immigrants  are  taking  the  lower  places  can  they  maintain 
their  monopolies,  because  the  unions,  as  organized  today,  are  not  representa- 
tive of  the  working  men,  they  are  monopolies. 

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The  immigrants  represent  a  high  monetary  value;  it  costs  money  to 
raise  people  to  mature  age,  and  they  do  not  send  back(  as  much  as  their 
bringing  up  has  cost;  further,  when  they  work  here  they  produce  more  than 
they  consume,  and  the  natives  grow  rich  on  them;  further,  the  more  educated 
people  are  turned  out  in  the  Usonan  schools  and  colleges,  the  more  brawny 
men  are  needed,  whether  they  can  read  and  write  or  not;  it  is  therefore  fool- 
ish to  restrict  European  immigration,  it  is  also  utterly  unjust,  the  degenerate 
descendants  of  Europeans  have  no  moral  right  whatsoever  to  exclude  Euro- 
peans. 

Any  law  that  abridges  the  right  of  aliens  as  to  ownership  of  property 
or  carrying  on  of  any  business  is  void. 

The  Asiatics  must  be  rigorously  excluded  from  Usono,  but  those  that 
are  now  here  must  be  treated  decently,  otherwise  they  can  not  be  as- 
similated and  will  be  a  menace  to  the  peaceful  development  of  the  country. 

I  know  very  well  that  all  races  can  be  mixed  and  will  be  mixed  in 
course  of  time,  and  must  be  mixed  in  order  to  develop  the  best  qualities  of 
each  in  the  future  humanity,  which  must  be  a  cross  as  we  are  a  cross  of 
former  races.  The  idea  that  the  Asiatic  can  not  be  blended  with  the  Euro- 
pean is  erroneous;  it  can  only  not  be  done  suddenly.  An  inrush  of  Asiatics 
into  Usono,  as  threatens  now,  would  lead  to  civil  war,  and  therefore  it 
must  not  be,  but  the  blending  will  take  place  anyhow,  very  gradually,  as 
it  has  happened  before,  because  the  European,  as  is  well  known  to  every 
student  of  the  human  races,  who  does  not  cling  to  the  surface,  is  a  cross 
of  the  longheaded  and  flat-haired  African  with  the  round-headed  and  round- 
haired  Asiatic,  which  is  sufficiently  proven  by  the  cross-section  of  European 
hair  being  oval  and  the  skull  of  medium  length.  To  the  uninitiated  it  may 
seem  strange  that  the  European  should  be  chiefly  a  cross  of  the  Asiatic 
and  the  African,  but  by  further  analysis  it  seems  natural.  The  African 
was  not  black  before  the  firmament  of  clouds  fell  in  the  deluge  and  Europe 
was  practically  uninhabited  during  the  following  glacial  period.  Then, 
when  the  ice  retreated,  Asiatics,  as  well  as  Africans,  followed  it,  losing 
culture  but  gaining  energy  in  their  hard  life  as  pioneers,  being  bleached  to 
a  white  in  the  damp  climate  of  the  North. 

In  the  question  of  the  mixture  of  the  races  the  temper  of  the  people 
must  be  considered  as  an  elementary  force  of  nature.  Immigration  direct 
from  Asia  must  be  prevented.  There  will,  of  course,  be  a  slow  ingress  from 
Hawaii  and  from  Central  and  South  America,  but  so  slow  that  it  will  be 
assimilated.  Such  prevention  is  only  possible  if  European  immigration  is 
favored.  The  present  nativistic  tendency  in  Congress  is  race  suicide.  Euro- 
pean immigration  will  decrease  too  soon  on  its  own  account,  due  to  the  eco- 
nomic progress  in  the  lesser  European  states. 

Crossing  races  is  necessary  and  inevitable,  but  it  must  be  slow.  The 
process  of  the  formation  of  the  European  was  slow.  It  was  effected  during 
those  undulations  of  the  glacial  period,  which  have  misled  geologists  into 
believing  that  there  have  been  more  than  one  glacial  period.  That  such 
an  error  is  possible  proves  that  it  was  a  long  time. 

Restrict  European  immigration  and  the  next  century  will  see  America 
Asiatic. 

Agreements  must  be  made  between  the  States  and  cities  for  the  recog- 
nition of  diplomas  given  by  schools  and  universities  exempting  the<  owner 
from  the  necessity  of  taking  a  civil  service  or  medical  examination. 

Examinations  never  show  the  worth  of  a  man  and  the  trend  to  base 
everything  on  examinations  must  be  halted. 

There  can  never  be  any  interference  with  the  liberty  of  thought,  or 
teaching  and  of  learning  at  the  universities,  and  it  is  the  office  of  every 
administration  and  of  all  courts  to  defend  this  liberty  against  all  comers. 

When  Barrows  criticised  the  administration  for  its  bluffing  towards 
Mexico,  it  was  not  yet  too  late.  There  should  always  be  far  more  such 

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criticism,  not  mere  fault  finding,  and  fewer  ,  ridiculous  things  would  be 
undertaken.  Senators  are  going  about  saying,  I  would  not  criticise  President 
Wilson  if  I  disagreed  with  him.  Such  an  attitude  is  very  deplorable.  Prompt 
criticism  is  the  only  safeguard  the  country,  has  against  lack  of  judgment 
in  elected  officials. 

No  religious  teaching  of  any  kind  whatsoever  is  to  be  permitted  in  the 
public  schools;  it  is  to!  be  left  altogether  to  private  organizations. 

All  private  (religious)  schools  and  houses*  of  correction  must  be  thor- 
oughly inspected,  and  controlled  by  the  State  where  they  are  located. 

Any  law  or  regulation  that  makes  the  admission  to  any  kind  of  a  public 
school  dependent  on  a  knowledge  of  any  ancient  language  is  void. 

The  study  of  Latin,  Greek,  Hebrew  and  other  dead  languages  must  be 
left  entirely  to  specialists;  only  the  modern  national  languages  and  Es- 
peranto! are  to  be  taught  in  the  public  schools. 

All  schools  and  colleges  must  teach  gymnastics  to  their  pupils  up  to 
the  eighteenth  year,  not  with  a  view  to  training  the  best  for  interscholastic 
affairs,  but  with  a  view  to  give  proper  health-giving  exercise  to  all. 

Anybody  in  any  way  injured  in  any  college  rush  or  similar  performance 
(hazing)  is;  entitled  to  damages  twice  as  heavy  as  under  common  law,  to 
be  levied  on  the  college. 

Any  law  o*  regulation  that  makes  the  progress  of  students  in  schools 
and  colleges  dependent  on  examinations  of  superficially  memorized  knowl- 
edge is  void. 

Any  law  that  interferes  with  the  whipping  of  boys  and  girls  in  school 
or  by  their  parents  when  they  show  disobedience  or  malice  is  void. 

The  education  of  the  boys  is  far  more  important  than  that  of  the  girls, 
because  the  majority  of  them  will  support  families  when  they  grow  up, 
while  women,  far  from  dreaming  of  ever  supporting  anybody,  don't  even 
want  to  be  mothers. 

It  is  desirable  that  boys  be  taught  by  men.  It  is  desirable  that  boys 
receive  an  education  suited  to  boys  and  not  as  is  now  the  case  suited  to 
girls.  Boys  should  be  brought  up  to  become  economically  successful, 
patriotic  men  and  good  fathers,  not  chauvinistic  braggers  as  now;  girls  to 
become  good  wives  and  mothers.  It  is,  however,  at  present  not  feasible  to 
incorporate  in  the  fundamental  law  a  provision  that  the  sexes  must  be 
separated  in  all  public  schools  and  that  boys  must  be  taught  exclusively 
or  almost  so  by  men.  Therefore  I  only  say: 

In  all  new  schools  for  more  than  fifty  children  the  boys  must  be 
separated  from  the  girls!,  and  three-fourths  of  the  boys'  teachers  must  be 
men. 

This  will  cost  more  money,  but  to  get  good  education  we  -have  to  spend 
more  money.  The  colonial  system  was  necessary,  but  Usono  must  outgrow 
the  colonial  state  soon. 

Any  endowment  of  educational  or  scientific  institutions  that  has  a 
string  to  it  is  void  as  far  as  the  string  is  concerned.  .  This  acts  into  the  past. 

'  All  the  Eockef eller  and  Carnegie  and  similar  donations  will  thereby 
become  public  property  and  will  be  managed  by  public  boards  without  regard 
to  special  stipulations.  The  money  is  public  money  and  has  come  into 
Rockefeller's,  and  Carnegie's  hands  only  in  defiance  of  the  law  and  must 
row  again  be  entirly  free  so  that  it  may*  be  used  in  the  future  for  the 
reeds  of  the  future  and  not  according  to  petrified  regulations,  some  of 
which  may  now  be  very  good  but  will  become  out  of  date. 

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All  States  must  establish  colleges  for  the  education  of  newspaper  men. 

All  States  must  set  aside  funds  for  assisting  newspaper  men  in  making 
foreign  journeys. 

The  deep  night  of  ignorance  and  insolence  of  the  average  Anglo-Usonan 
newspaper  man  must  be  broken. 

The  daily  press  is  now  a  great  power  for  mischief;  it  should  become 
a  power  for  the  advancement  of  culture.  The  money  spent  for  such  a 
purpose  will  bring  fruit  a  thousand-fold. 

Development  can  be  prevented  by  abuse,  but  it  can  never  be  produced 
by  not-drinking,  not  smoking  or  not  using  women. 

Said   Dana:      "I'd   rather  see  the  whole   world   voluntarily  drunk  than 
one  obliged  to  be  sober."     As  a  matter  of  fact,  his  wish  was  granted.     I 
have  never  met  a  man  that  was  not  voluntarily  drunk,  and  drunken  beyond.!, 
all  control  and  possibility  of  sense  are  the  prohibitionists. 

It  is  the  duty  of  local  governments  to  prevent  excesses  due  to  the 
abus.e  of  alcohol  in  order  to  protect  the  public,  and  the  most  efficient  way 
to  do  so  is  to  prohibit  as  far  as  feasible  the  abuse  of  alcohol. 

It  is  a  criminal  act  to'agitate  for  the  prohibition  of  the  use  of  alcohol. 

Nobody  must  use  it. 

Those  that  don't  use  it  at  the  proper  time  are  fools. 

Those  that  want  to  prevent  their  fellow-men  from  using  it  are  criminals. 

Those  that  abuse  it  may  become  dangerous  to  society  and  must  be  held  "....,, 
to  their  limit  by  persuasion,  and  if  necessary,  by  force. 

To: allow  no  personal  freedom  because  it  leads  occasionally  to  excess, 
but  to  make  everybody  walk  between  two'  walls  of  law  so  he  can  neither 
swerve  right  nor  left,  would  destroy  all  self-reliance  and  self-restraint  and 
produce  great  weakness.  A  people  used  to  such  conditions  for  generations, 
would  lose  all  power  of  resistance  and  become  the  easy  prey  of  criminal 
ambition.  Character  is  the  greatest  asset  of  the  individual  and  of  the 
people,  and  character  can  be  developed  only  in  freedom. 

Where  laws  are  made  to  regulate  the  consumption  of  alcoholic  beverages 
or  drugs,  the  use  of  light  drinks  and  drugs  like  beer,  wine  and  tobacco 
must  be  favored  against  the  use  of  whisky,  opium,  cocaine.    Any  law  that  T  , 
produces  the  opposite  effect  is  void. 

All  prohibition  laws  are  thereby  void,  as  well  as  local  option  laws, 
because  they  are  notorious  for  increasing  the  abuse  of  opium,  6oeaine  and 
whisky  by  making  it  difficult  to  get  mild  ''alcoholic  beverages-  like  the 
bulky  light  wines  and  beers.  .  .. 

Thruout  the  country,  saloons  that  have  a  bar  accessible  to  the  peo- 
plev  must  pay  twice  as  high  a  license  as  such  places  that,  have  a  bar  ac- 
cessible to  waiters  only,  and  that  are  sufficiently  provided  with  seats  and 
tables,  so  that  people  are  induced  to  behave  in  a  more  civilized  manner 
than  to  take  one  drink  after  another  over  the  bar. 

Where  alcohol  distillates  are  sold  the  license  must  be  at  least  twice 
as  high  as  where  nothing  stronger  than  wine  or  beer  is  sold. 

All  cities  must  maintain  a  proper  number  of  lavatories  independent  of 
the  saloons. 

All  taxes  that  are  levied  on  alcoholic  beverages  apply  automatically  to 
all  non-alcoholic  beverages,  with  the  only  exception  of  water  and  milk. 

In  the  city  of  San  "Francisco  there  are  more  people  who  work  thru 
the  week  and  go  for  a  hike  on  Sunday  than  at  any  plae,e.  in  UsonO  that 
I  have  heard  of.  This  is  due  to  the  absence  of  a  Sunday  closing, lawv  People"-  . 
can  get  refreshments  after  an  excursion.  Without  that  they  will  not  go 
into  the  fresh  air  and  sunshine,  which  they  need  so  much.  San  Francisco 
is  all  right  in  that  respect,  but  the  rest  of  the  country  is  in  V  shameful 

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condition.  There  is  every  incentive  to  abuse  strong  alcoholic  beverages, 
especially  on  Sundays,  because  whisky  is  not  bulky  and  can  be  smuggled 
so  easily.  The  Puritans  are  guilty  of  having  produced  this  condition,  and 
it  must  be  changed  whatever  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union 
may  say.  The  following  law  is  therefore  necessary: 

Any  law  that  prevents  families,  including  minors,  from  getting  refresh- 
ments, excluding  opium,  whisky,  cocaine,  on  any  day  in  the  year  at  an  inn 
located  half  a  mile  from  any  railroad  is  void.  The  States  are  held  responsible 
to  the  Federal  Government  for  the  maintenance  and  proper  management 
of  a  sufficient  number  of  such  inns. 

The  States  and  towns  have  a  free  hand  how  they  want  to  regulate 
those  inns,  but  the  Federal  Government  demands  that  there  must  be  regula- 
tions that  prevent  the  consumption  of  intoxicating  liquors  by  drunkards  or 
drunken  people,  and  by  such  as  cause  a  disturbance,  and  that  order  is  well 
maintained,  and  that  the  inns  are  not  turned  to  any  use  conflicting  with  their 
purpose  as  harmless  places  of  healthful  recreation. 

All  local  governments  are  held  to  enforce  laws  and  regulations  that 
will  reduce  drunkenness  and  the  abuse  of  all  poisonous  drugs. 

The  interest  in  sport  in  Usono  is  nothing  but  a  gambling  interest. 
Some  don't  put  any  money  up,  but  they  gamble  on  it  in  their  minds,  and 
that  is  as  near  as  they  ever  come  to  getting  any  exercise  for  their  health 
out  of  sport.  Nothing  should  be  done  to  encourage  this,  but,  instead,  the 
actual  taking  of  exercise  by  the  people  at  large,  that  now  only  look  on  or 
read  about  it,  should  be  promoted. 

Any  law  that  assists  any  professional  or  semi-professional  sport  event 
in  a  pecuniary  or  other  way  is  void. 

The  Olympics  are  included,  as  they  are  not  yet  cleaned  from  the 
taint  of  professionalism. 

Any  law  that  fixes  a  penalty  for  ending  the  life  of  the  hopelessly 
sick  with  their  own  consent  is  void. 

Any;  city  that  does  not  come  up  to  ths  standard  of  cleanliness,  to  be 
fixed  by  a  Federal  commission  which  constantly  inspects  all  towns,  must 
pay  such  damages  to  the  Federal  Government  that  it  would  be  cheaper  to 
introduce  a  proper  cleaning  system. 

If  the  Usonans  were  ripe  for  self-government  their  cities  would  be  clean 
without  Federal  inspection,  but  they  must  bcome  clean  somehow.  Seattle, 
Washington,  is  the  only  exception  I  know;  there  may  be  a  few  others.  New 
York,  Chicago,  San  Francisco  are  no  exceptions. 

The  finder  receives  10  per  cent  of  the  value  of  the  find  as  the  reward 
of  honesty. 

All  governments  must  always  consider  the  opinion  of  experts  that  are 
not  Government  officials  in  all  questions  that  refer  to  more  than  detail. 

For  instance,  the  Eeichsbank  is  well  organized,  President  Wilson's 
currency  reform  is  wrong.  The  burocracy  must  never  have  complete 
control.  In  questions  of  such  grave  import  private  experts  should  have 
even  more  power  than  to  give  advice. 

Beyond  the  poison  laws  of  the  States  the  Federal  Government  has  the 
right  to  prohibit  or  restrict  the  manufacture  of  any  article  considered  by 
experts  as  too  dangerous. 

All  official  statements  of  measurements  of  any  kind  must  make  use  of 
the  metric  system. 


Every  prescription  pharmacy  in  the  country  must  stay  open  day  and 
night,  or  the  right  to  fill  prescriptions  must  be  taken  away  entirely.  Drug 
stores  close  when  they  please. 

No  building  may  "be  higher  than  the  width  of  the  widest  adjacent  street. 
Steeples  are  permissible  to  any  height  as  long  as  they  cover  no  more  than 
one  per  cent  of  the  ground  area  of  the  building.  Buildings  that  are  now 
higher  must  come  down  within  twenty  years. 

New  York  City  and  others  cannot  be  permitted  to  draw  the  best  talent 
from  the  country  and  then  oblige  them  to  live  and  work  without  air  and 
light,  and  to  crowd  them  on  the  streets  and  cars  beyond  description.  Busi- 
ness need  not  be  crowded  together,  the  telephone  makes  that  entirely  un- 
necessary. The  health  of  the  Nation  is  at  stake  and  thorough-going  in- 
terference is  necessary. 

Christian  Science  practitioners  and  other  healers  are  prohibited  from 
receiving  money  for  their  prayers  or  manipulations  unless  they  actually  per- 
form a  cure, 

Christian  Science  practitioners  occasionally  perform  some  healing, 
though  not  in  the  way  they  think  they  do,  the  majority  of  them,  however, 
are  reaping  a  rich  harvest  from  the  religious  superstition  of  the  people  for 
which  they  do  nothing  in  return,  and  the  widows  of  their  victims  are  en- 
cumbered with  debt  for  their  "absent  treatments." 

It  is  prohibited  to  interfere  by  violence  with  anybody  that  wants  to  die. 

Nobody  has  the  slightest  right  whatsoever  to  force  earthly  life  on 
anybody. 

Any  law  that,  by  checking  abnormality,  also  checks  genius,  (steriliza- 
tion of  criminals,  for  instance),  is  void. 

Every  Secretary  of  State  must  give  his  whole  time  to  public  business. 
Electioneering  and  campaign  speeches  by  men  in  office  are  prohibited. 

The  Monroe  doctrine,  as  stated  by  Monroe  himself,  is  right;  it  cer- 
tainly is  against  Usonan  interests  if  any  American,  European  or  Asiatic 
power  should  cause  any  American  State  to  lose  its  independence,  but  the 
Monroe  dictrine,  as  it  spooks  in  the  heads  of  many  people,  is  a  very  grave 
insult  to  all  American  nations,  which  see  their  independence  interfered  with 
by  such  a  doctrine  of  supervision  of  their  affairs. 

Eoosevelt  has  violated  the  Monroe  doctrine  by  violently  interfering 
with  the  independence  of  the  Republic  of  Colombia.  A  canal  zone  was 
to  be  established  and  Eoosevelt  did  not  know  how  to  manage  it  without 
having  a  little  war.  It  is  too  late  now,  but  it  should  never  happen  again. 

If  the  Monroe  doctrine  is  so  construed  that  the  American  States  are 
not  allowed  to  work  out  their  own  salvation,  they  will  never  get  that 
healthy  development  which  is  due  them. 

Any  diplomatic  action  that  tends  to  make  other  nations  and  their  rulers 
dance  to  the  moral  fiddle  of  any  Usonan  burocrat  is  void. 

To  try  to  force  any  particular  type  of  morality  on  other  folks  is  the 
utmost  immorality.  It  is  very  natural  that  President  Wilson,  having  been 
elected  by  a  minority,  should  think  that  nobody  can  be  a  good  President 
unless  elected  by  a  minority,  and  it  is  very  natural  that  Usonans  in  general 
Should  hope  that  every  country  shall  in  future  be  governed  like  their  own 
by  legal  graft,  but  although  this  is  very  natural,  the  Administration  has 
no  right  to  even  advise  other  governments  to  reform  themselves  in  that 
direction.  There  is  only  one  thing  the  Federal  Government  has  a  right  to 
do  in  foreign  countries,  and  that  is  to  protect  Usonan  interests,  in  case  of 
grave  necessity,  even  by  intervention,  but  there  can  never  be  even  a  hint  at 

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intervention  on  account  of  any  government  not  coming  up  to  any  standard. 
Everybody  must  work  out  his  own  salvation  in  his  own  way.  Mr.  Bryan, 
who  is  the  soul  of  that  immoral  policy  of  making  ridiculous  demands*  th&t 
no  self-respecting  Mexican  can  ever  listen  to,  should  be  dismissed  at  once.' 
One  -bad'  governm'eiit  crumbles,  a  worse  one  takes  its  place,  and  yet  the 
necessity  remains  that  the  Mexicans  must  work  out  their  own  salvation. 

President  Wilson  and  Mr.  Bryan  are  responsible  for  many  lives  lost 
in  Mexico  by  the  moral  support  they  have 'given  to  a  continuance  of  in- 
surrections. 

It  is  always  impossible  .to  take  the  second  step  first.  Reforms  can  be 
introduced  in  Mexico  only  after  the  rebellion  is  over. 

The  inquisition  is  not  dead.  The  inquisition  is  rampant  thruout  Usono, 
and  an  attempt  was  made  recently  to  extend  it  over  Mexico;  luckily  it 
failed. 

The-  appointed  heads  of  departments  in  any  government  do  not  come 
under  civil  service  rules. 

.    There  is  a  limit  to  civil  service,  otherwise  there  would  be  no  limit  to 
red  tape. 

Any  law  that  makes  a  body  of  examiners  the  arbiters  of  the  employ- 
ment of  civil  service  men  is  void. 

Civil  service,  as  now  generally  organized,  leads  to  an  arrogant  bu- 
rocracy  and  is  worse  than  the  spoils  system.  The  decisive  word  about  the 
employment  of  any  man  must  be  spoken  by  his  employer. 

Now,  after  all  the  seriousness,  let's  have  some  fun. 

Tactlessness,  when  it  goes  to  such  length  as  to  carry  the  supposed  bones 
of  Columbus  to  an  exposition,  is  to  be  punished  by  electrocution. 

Thissis  more  effective  than  race  suicide,  it  might  kill  off  about  lOOp  per- 
cent of  the  common  people. 


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